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Category: Blogging
> See the whole story behind PostSecret, watch this video 
> See 20 more PostSecret postcards at www.postsecret.com
Two weeks ago over 5,000 of you posted your numbers here for texting secrets - and last week over 10,000 of you did. By telling your friends about this experiment of "anonymous intimacy" we are growing it into a movement! Keep spreading the word! (Twitter, StumbleUpon, Digg etc.) - Email your secrets to the most recently added numbers in the comments section below. (PR = Please Respond: NR = No Response)
- List your number in the comments section. (To get more secrets post it again.)
- Invite your friends to share their secrets and list their numbers too.
Here is just one of the inspiring messages I received from you two days ago. Unsure of what would come of it, I posted my number in the comments on your latest blog. I quickly had someone send me their secret. I kept answering texts as they came to me. It was amazing to see the response from everyone that I came into contact with! The healing and understanding that takes place through these simple texts is something I can't put into words.
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Here is part two of my interview with Davy Rothbart from FOUND Magazine. 
Hi Davy, can your remind people what you do in one sentence? I make a magazine called FOUND, which collects notes and letters that people have found on the ground or on the street and sent in to us from around the U.S., and all over the world.
How goes the movie you are working on with David Meiklejohn? The movie's not quite done, but please check out the trailer for My Heart Is An Idiot right here.
What's a secret about you that no one knows? Here's a secret that I just shared for the first time recently: My mom is deaf, and when I was a kid I used to find some pretty ingenious ways to take advantage of her deafness! I wrote an article about it for a magazine called Guilt & Pleasure. The hardest part was sharing the secret with my mom and not knowing how she'd react, but as always she got the last laugh.
Do you have any brushes with fame stories? While unloading the van before a FOUND show in New York City, I ran into The Lord of the Rings actor Elijah Wood, inexplicably barefoot, coming down the sidewalk. "What you got in those boxes?" he asked me. I showed him a copy of FOUND Magazine and explained the project to him. "That's cool!" he said. "It sounds kind of like my favorite website in the world — PostSecret." I laughed and told him that I was a fan of PostSecret, too, and that I'd come to know Frank over the years. Elijah laughed, and told me he'd sent in a bunch of his own secrets; then he padded off down the street. It was so cool to think about the wonders of the Internet, the power of community art, and the fact that you could start a project in your basement, like FOUND or PostSecret, and a year later you could be receiving mail from all 50 states, every continent, and even Middle Earth! As we have talked about before there are so many opportunities for community art projects on the web. Are there any others you want to mention? Recently, my friend Jason Bitner, who started FOUND Magazine with me, started an awesome project called Cassettes From My Ex, where people share old mix tapes given to them by boyfriends and girlfriends, and tell the tale of their romance. I'm sure that some of you who are reading this will be the ones to start the next FOUND or PostSecret kind of project, inviting people to connect in unusual and exciting ways. What are you excited about right now? After several years of traveling around the U.S. putting on FOUND shows, my brother, Peter Rothbart, and I are headed to Europe for the first time, and we're bringing Brett Loudermilk, an 18-year-old sword-swallowing prodigy, with us, along with our friend Andrew Cohn, a legendary underground DJ from Los Angeles. We can't wait to bring our rowdy, magical FOUND show to the U.K. and mainland Europe, and to collect finds from all of you guys living across the pond! 
Well this is the end of our interview and I want to thank you for taking the time to talk about some of the cool projects you are working on. But I don't want to end without mentioning my favorite This American Life episode where you and your Mom meet The Other Man. Thanks so much for having me, Frank. But wait, I've saved the most important part of for last! SEND IN YOUR FINDS! I would love for everyone reading this to participate in FOUND by sharing their finds with all of us! There's a few ways you can do this: 1 - Scan your finds and post them right here in the Comments section. 3 – Send your original finds or a crisp photocopy directly to the FOUND HQ at my parents' house: FOUND Magazine, 3455 Charing Cross Road, Ann Arbor, MI 48108-1911. Can't wait to check 'em out! And even if you don't still have the actual find, we'd love to hear your stories about things you've found – add your comments below! *** *** ***
Come back next week to see how PostSecret has spread to other countries and to learn more about texting secrets to strangers. Linda
 
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